{"id":1396288,"date":"2022-03-23T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396288"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:44:53","slug":"gov-desantis-declares-second-place-finisher-not-lia-thomas-winner-of-ncaa-womens-swimming-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-desantis-declares-second-place-finisher-not-lia-thomas-winner-of-ncaa-womens-swimming-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov DeSantis Declares Second Place Finisher, Not Lia Thomas, Winner of NCAA Women\u2019s Swimming Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgov-desantis-declares-second-place-finisher-not-lia-thomas-winner-of-ncaa-womens-swimming-event%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Many may have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VfZGTeeYE1E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">play along<\/a> with declaring Lia Thomas as one of the greatest female athletes of all time, but everyone else lives on planet Earth where dogs bark, the sky is blue, and men can\u2019t suddenly be women because they said they were.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas is definitely a man and there\u2019s no escaping that fact. It\u2019s why when he was declared the winner of the NCAA women\u2019s swimming championship, many <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/slee\/2022\/03\/21\/letters-to-the-ncaa-over-lia-thomas-hit-on-some-plain-truths-that-go-beyond-trans-rights-n539049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">people immediately rejected<\/a> his first-place victory and focused on the girls who finished below him. In one stunning moment, the girls did the same.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The is is bravery in the face of mindless hysteria. <\/p>\n<p>(The girl they\u2019re posing with came in fourth \u201cofficially\u201d \u2665\ufe0f) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oiShIsOHL5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/oiShIsOHL5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lyndseyfifield\/status\/1504823851963895821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is all happening because Thomas is a cheater.<\/p>\n<p>Among those not giving the transgender swimmer any credence is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who wholly dismissed the cheater and declared that the true winner was none other than the second runner up, Emma Weyant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at what the\u00a0NCAA has done in allowing basically men to compete in women\u2019s athletics, and in this case swimming \u2026 you had the number one woman who finished was from Sarasota, Emma Weyent,\u201d said DeSantis. \u201cShe won the silver medal, she\u2019s been an absolute superstar her whole career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo compete at that level is very, very difficult,\u201d continued the Florida Governor. \u201cAnd you don\u2019t just roll out of bed and do it. That takes grit. That takes determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the NCAA is basically taking efforts to destroy women\u2019s athletics. They\u2019re trying to undermine the integrity of the competition, crowning somebody else the women\u2019s champion, and we think that\u2019s wrong,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to be doing a proclamation saying that Emma is the best female swimmer\u201d in the 500-yard freestyle. She earned that and we need to stop allowing organizations like the NCAA to perpetrate frauds on the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST NOW: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> says he will sign a &#8220;proclamation&#8221; naming <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@UVA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USASwimming?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@USASwimming<\/a> Olympian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emmaweyant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@emmaweyant<\/a> the &#8220;best female swimmer&#8221; of the women&#8217;s 500-yard freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NCAA<\/a> is &#8220;perpetuating fraud&#8221; &#038; &#8220;trying to undermine the integrity of the competition&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wt6I058ILp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/wt6I058ILp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Donovan (@EvanDonovan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanDonovan\/status\/1506295784043696131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is exactly what needs to happen in order to combat the lunacy being pushed by organizations either too coopted by wokeness or too afraid to push back against it. Their \u201cofficial\u201d declarations need to be ignored, and the people should celebrate the actual winners as if the trans athlete that barged into the competition wasn\u2019t even a factor. The only time he should be mentioned is when he\u2019s denounced as the cheater he is.<\/p>\n<p>As has been said many times, women\u2019s sports should not be a \u201cplan B\u201d for men who couldn\u2019t cut it when competing against other men. They should not be rewarded for deluding themselves into thinking they deserve to be a part of women\u2019s spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, like all male athletes who proclaim they\u2019re female athletes, should be rejected and denounced by everyone from us citizens to elected leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many may have to play along with declaring Lia Thomas as one of the greatest female athletes of all time, but everyone else lives on planet Earth where dogs bark,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}